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Bush administration says “NO! My Infaweb!” ICANN and rest of world rolls eyes. Whether that's like an impatient babysitter, or a frightened horse is yet to be determined. Needless to say, shit like that has a tendency to make one a little edgy. I love my free, global, gap-bridging infaweb. What kind of terrible things might happen with this development?

Oh the horror.

Am I the only one sick and tired of those chintzy plastic “show your support for X cause” bracelets?

If not, please, share your gripes. If you wish to defend them, please, also share your thoughts.

I find them to be a lousy way to show support for anything. All it says is “Hi! I'm one of those opinionless bandwagon people you see so much of. I'm fairly certain that at least half a cent of my buying this goes towards some cause I have vauge knowledge of, so I'm going to buy it and make people think I am a thoughtful and charitable human being.”

You are not thoughtful or charitable, you are a faker with poor fashion sense. Wake up and smell the factory exahuast. You, the bracelet wearer, appear to me to be a total tool. Have a conversation with me about Charity X, enlighten me as to your basis for support. Point me in the direction of known functional charitable groups to which I can and should lend support. Take your tacky-ass, fake sympathy elsewhere otherwise, you damn poser.

Granted, perhaps my basis for complaint is weak because I rarely participate in charitable activity, but I still have enough dignity and savvy to understand that paying 5$ for an ugly chunk of rubbery plastic - which was probably made in something akin to a sweat shop - isn't going to benefit anybody but those who get paid down the manufacturing chain. Said manufacturing chain benefiting the CEO-types the most. Pretty weak and disgraceful if you ask me. Maybe the originals were of some value, but guess how many knockoffs and fakes there are now? Tons. Screw it. I'm going to give my old clothes to goodwill and try to drive an efficient car and recycle and try my best to be a helpful nice person to as many people as I can. That's honest, that helps, and it doesn't compromise my meager attempts to be classy.

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